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** FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2022
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It is not by the intermeddling of ... the omniscient and omnipotent State, but by the prudence and energy of the people, that England has hitherto been carried forward in civilization; and it is to the same prudence and the same energy that we now look with comfort and good hope. Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay, Southey's Colloquies on Society ([link removed]) [1830]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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March 4, 2022
Surprise! The Supreme Court Defers to the CIA ([link removed])
As longtime readers of my blog know, I have long maintained that it is the national-security branch of the federal government that runs the government, especially when it comes to foreign affairs. The other three branches, while being permitted to have the veneer of running the government, actually operate in support of the national-security branch. This is also the thesis set forth ...
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The Finland Option May Still Save Ukraine ([link removed])
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Chronicle of a War Foretold ([link removed])
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TGIF: When History Begins – Russia, Ukraine & the US ([link removed])
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Free Association
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Salon ([link removed])
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Committee of the Republic
Fifty Years Of China ([link removed])
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How the US Sabotaged Russia’s Economy after the Fall of the Soviet Union ([link removed])
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Scott Horton
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Russia’s Move in Ukraine Has Parallels with US Actions in Kosovo ([link removed])
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Responsible Statecraft
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